From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:21:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130812122150.GA28184@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130812115234.GA7709@infradead.org>
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 04:52:34AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> lvm is mostly about the Linux specific formats. If you want to create
> a separate userspace consumer for device mapper that's probably also
> fine, but if you need support for complex layours device mapper is the
> way to go, and the partitioning layer isn't getting you anywhere.
If you can map the AIX volume manager objects onto the linux ones, you
can write a 'format' module for lvm2 to handle them.
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-12 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-29 21:18 [PATCH v2 0/5] partitions: add AIX LVM support Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/5] partitions/msdos.c: end-of-line whitespace and semicolon cleanup Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-20 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-21 7:27 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-24 10:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-24 10:58 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-08-12 11:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-12 12:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] partitions/msdos: enumerate also AIX LVM partitions Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-20 23:41 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-21 7:16 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 4/5] partitions/Makefile: compile aix.c if configured Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 5/5] partitions/Kconfig: add the AIX_PARTITION entry Philippe De Muyter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-25 21:10 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add aix lvm partitions support Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 9:37 ` Karel Zak
2013-04-29 11:40 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 12:36 ` Karel Zak
2013-04-29 15:34 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 6:41 ` Jens Axboe
2013-04-30 6:45 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:50 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 7:08 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 7:18 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-01 5:35 ` Philippe De Muyter
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